594 



POPULATION. 



The following table gives the same data for the aggregate population, 

 aiul for the male and female foreign born population of South Carolina 

 and of the United States, and the average of seven European States: 



The most notable feature in these tables is the greater number of young 

 persons in South Carolina than in the country at large and the still 

 Greater number than in foreign countries. AVhile this necessarilv adds 

 to the burden of the working population, it forms the hope of the future, 

 and life is so much easier in South Carolina than it is in more densely 

 peopled countries, that the promise to multiply and increase and replen- 

 ish the earth is still regarded here as a promise of blessing, and surprise 

 is felt that it should anywhere be a burden. There are only two exceptions 

 to this preponderance, namely, among the foreign-born and white females. 

 The foreign-born however do not seem to find the conditions unfavora- 

 ble to them, the proportion that pass on through the working period of 

 life to full old age being much greater in this State than it is either in 

 tlie United States at large, or in their native countries. The somewhat 

 smaller proportion of white females, if not accidental, is otherwise unex- 

 plained, unless it results from a diminution of female births, which might 

 also account for the diminution of females to males, which has occurred 

 within the last decade. 



It will be observed that in the particular above referred to, the ages of 

 the population of the country at large resemble those of the European 

 populations more than the ages of the population of South Carolina do. 



